¹ I have in mind the liturgical impetus given by the promulgation of the 1986 Collectio Missarum de beata Virgine Maria, the renewed vigour of theological theories of Marian mediation dependent on an ‘ecclesio-typical’ Mariology (see for instanceEggemann, L., Die ‘ekklesiologische Wende’ in der Mariologie des II. Vatikanums und ‘Konziliare Perspektiven’ als neue Horizonte für das Verständnis der Mittlerschaft Marias [Altenberge, 1993]Google Scholar), and the popular movement associated with the name of the American lay theologian Mark Miravalle which lobbies for a new dogma linking co-redemption via Marian ‘advocacy’ to the Virgin's mediation of graces.

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⁴ By the latter, Balthasar had in mind here such works as Gächter, P., Maria im Erdenleben. Neutestamentliche Marienstudien (Innsbrück: Tyrolia, 1954Google Scholar); Willam, F. M., Maria, Mutter und Gefährtin des Erlösers (Freiburg: Herder, 1959)Google Scholar.

⁵ I offer a hopefully accessible entry to Balthasar's theo-dramatic theory in A. Nichols, O. P., A Key to Balthasar. Hans Urs von Balthasar on Beauty, Goodness and Truth (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2011), pp. 49–88, and a full commentary on the volumes of his Theo-dramatik in idem., No Bloodless Myth. A Guide through Balthasar's Dramatics (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 2000)Google Scholar.

⁶ Hilda Steinhauer, who has written the fullest account of Balthasar's Mariological reflections overall: Maria als dramatischer Person bei Hans Urs von Balthasar. Zum marianischen Prinzip seines Denkens (Innsbrück: Tyrolia, 2001)Google Scholar.

⁷ Newman, J. H., Certain Difficulties felt by Anglicans in Catholic Teaching, II (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1907), p. 26Google Scholar, cited in H. U. von Balthasar,. Theo-Drama. Theological Dramatic Theory, III, op cit., p. 296.

⁸ J. H. Newman, Certain Difficulties felt by Anglicans in Catholic Teaching, II, op. cit., p. 58, on the vision of the ‘Woman clothed with the Sun’ in Apocalypse 12: ‘doubtless the Woman represents the Church; this, I grant, is the real or direct sense, but what is the sense of the symbol under which that real sense is conveyed? Who are the Woman and the Child: I answer, they are not personifications but Persons. This is true of the Child, therefore it is true of the Woman.’

⁹ Theo-Drama. Theological Dramatic Theory, III, op. cit., p. 297. I draw here on material used earlier in A. Nichols, O. P., No Bloodless Myth, op. cit., 2000), pp. 112–113.

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¹² Ibid., p. 7.

¹³ Balthasar's commitment to this work was long lasting as is demonstrated by the second edition which appeared from his publishing house, Johannes Verlag, Einsiedeln, in 1969.

¹⁴ Saward, J., The Mysteries of March. Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Incarnation and Easter (London: Collins, 1990), pp. 61–81Google Scholar.

¹⁵ Laurentin, R., Le titre de Co-rédemptrice. Etude historique (Rome: Editions Marianum; Paris: Nouvelles Editions latines, 1951)Google Scholar.

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¹⁷ Rémy, G., ‘Le Christ Médiateur dans l'oeuvre de S. Thomas d'Aquin’, Revue Thomiste XCIII. ii (1993), pp. 183–233Google Scholar, and here at p. 230. A ‘Greek view’: see Taft, R. S. J., ‘L'apport des liturgies d'Orient à l'intelligence du culte chrétien’, in Clerck, p. de (ed.), La Liturgie, lieu théologique (Paris: Beauchesne, 1999), pp. 97–122Google Scholar, and here at pp. 108–109.

¹⁸ Balthasar, H. U. von [with Adrienne von Speyr], Au coeur du Mystère rédempteur0 (Paris: Editions C. D. F., 1980), p. 55Google Scholar.

¹⁹ Idem., Theo-Drama. Theological Dramatic Theory, III., op. cit., p. 323.

²⁰ Idem., Au coeur du Mystère rédempteur, op. cit., p. 58.

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²² Balthasar, H. U. von, Theo-Drama. Theological Dramatic Theory, IV. The Action (Et San Francisco: Ignatius, 1994), p. 395Google Scholar.

²³ Lumen Gentium, 62.

²⁴ Ibid., 58, with allusions to John 19: 25 and 26–27.

²⁵ H. U. von Balthasar, Theo-Drama. Theological Dramatic Theory, IV. The Action, op. cit., p. 356.

²⁶ Ibid., p. 358.

²⁷ Ibid., p. 361.

²⁸ Idem., The Glory of the Lord. A Theological Aesthetics, I. Seeing the Form, op. cit., p. 364. See more widely on this theme, Leahy, B., The Marian Profile in the Ecclesiology of Hans Urs von Balthasar (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1996)Google Scholar.

²⁹ Idem., Au coeur du Mystère rédempteur, op. cit., p. 54.

³⁰ Idem., The Glory of the Lord. A Theological Aesthetics, I. Seeing the Form, op. cit., p. 341.

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³² A good idea of these may be had by scanning the ‘Bulletins mariales’ furnished by Père Jean-Hervé Nicolas, O. P., in the pages of the Revue thomiste in the years surrounding the dogmatisation of Mary's Assumption.

³³ Words spoken at the 1986 Fatima Symposium on the Alliance of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, cited in Miravalle, M. I. (ed.), Contemporary Insights on a Fifth Marian Dogma. Mary Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, Advocate. Theological Foundations III (Goleta, CA, Queenship Publishing, 2000), p. 6Google Scholar.